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April 2007

Update: we just found another one - Google TiSP. Actually, this one is semi-plausible. Now we gotta beware of the double bluff. ;) -- It's only just turned April Fools, but already the gags are piling into our inbox. Google is out the door running, l...

Since there are so many potential "fool" announcements today, you might as well play along at home. Eventful, for instance, is announcing that it is switching to an "all Twitter" interface to bypass issues like uptime, instant responses, clean markup...

Updated, May 12th 2007: New writers are still being accepted. -- As more and more social startups and stories pile into the Mashable inbox, we risk being overwhelmed by the volume. Kristen is doing an amazing job of keeping us on top of things, but t...

In a similar idea to the launch of GMail Paper (email on printed paper), Facebook is rolling out Live Poke today, a service in which Facebook will dispatch a real person to poke your friend. A "Mark Zuckerberg" production, the message in the footer, ...

Momby, the blog that gained a lot of attention (at least from the Digg crowd) for providing a month of Apple Bugs, is launching a "Month of MySpace Bugs" today. Every day, they'll be posting a new exploit to take advantage of MySpace's numerous secur...

In an obvious attempt at Digg bait, Slashdot launched "Slashdottit" today, which turns the Slashdot interface into a Digg clone. The number of votes being counted is ridiculously huge - as much as 6*10^23 for some stories. That's significantly more v...

The blog ads network CrispAds has been sold for an undisclosed price. The company originally attempted an eBayquisition with a starting bid of $90K, but they don't seem to have received much interest. At that time - September 2006 - they said they ha...

Google Writer is said to be a new application that will basically write blog posts for you automatically. Do we smell another Google-related April Fools? Most definitely. But the concept is certainly something that Google could pull off. "Google Writ...

The latest eBayquisition: SynapseLife, a suite of web-based applications that are available on your mobile phone, sold for $60K on eBay in the last few hours. The founders are now switching their focus to Down2Night, a much sexier social app that wil...

ZoomInfo, the business market search engine, will be announcing tomorrow a set of new features, including a patented semantic search that tags, aggregates and organizes the information for people, companies, products and services, and industries. Zoo...

Topix.net, the news aggregator, will make the jump to the Topix.com domain tonight. We reported previously on the risks involved with a switch of domain when the site is so established, but Topix feels that the .com has more brand power and will avoi...

Slideroll is known for its easy-to-use slideshow creation tools for images and video, and Sploder, the flash game creator. Now they're launching a new product, Slideroll Gallery AV, which is a desktop application that makes it even easier to create p...

Update: EMI has now confirmed that it will be selling DRM free tracks. The release is here. EMI announced on Sunday that it has an "exciting new digital offering," for the media event to be held in London on Monday with Steve Jobs as a special guest,...

Magnify.net, the company that lets you create your own niche video channel, will announce a plethora of new features this week - they're expected to go live on Tuesday. First up, they've improved their drag-and-drop function to include your members o...

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